Since all packs are involved in recruiting, I thought
it would be appropriate for September to remind you about an incentive award for
boys to get their friend to join Scouting. See Pack Admin Helps for ideas for
Spring Recruiting. - CD

Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts may be awarded, and wear, below the right pocket on
their uniforms, the Recruiter Strip shown above

There are NO formal requirements for these strips. Each Unit establishes the
procedure for awarding the strip. Usually, a Recruiter Strip is awarded to a
Cub Scout or Boy Scout the first time he is successful in getting a friend,
relative, classmate, or other acquaintance to join his unit.

Typically, only ONE strip is awarded to a boy while he is a Cub Scout, and
another may be awarded while he is a Boy Scout. But there is no official limit.

From time to time there are special Recruiter Patches issued. I have seen
Football Helmets, Garfield, and others.

Just remember – A boy has to be having fun
in Cub Scouting before he will ask his friend to join.

Boys' Life Reading Contest

Enter the 20th Boys' Life Reading Contest Now!

Write a one-page report titled "The Best Book I
Read This Year" and enter it in the Boys' Life 2007 "Say Yes to Reading!"
contest.

The book can be fiction or nonfiction. But the
report has to be in your own words—500 words tops. Enter in one of these three
age categories: 8 years old and younger,
9 and 10 years old, or 11 years and older.

First-place winners in each age category will
receive a $100 gift certificate good for any product in the Boy Scouts Official
Retail Catalog. Second-place will receive a $75 gift certificate, and
third-place a $50 certificate.

Everyone who enters will get a free patch like
the one above. (The patch is a temporary insignia, so it can be worn on the Boy
Scout uniform shirt. Proudly display it there or anywhere!) In coming years,
you'll have the opportunity to earn the other patches.

The contest is open to all Boys' Life
readers. Be sure to include your name, address, age and grade on the entry. Send
your report, along with a business-size, self-addressed, stamped envelope, to:

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